Earth Journalism Network

Stella Paul

Biography

Stella Paul is an India-based international journalist, covering climate change across Asia Pacific with a strong focus on gender and indigenous communities. Only Indian journalist to be honored with the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)'s Courage in Journalism Award and East West Center's Bravery in Journalism award, Stella is also a 2 time CCMP fellow (2011 and 2015). She also won the Asian Environmental Journalism Award in 2015, 2014 and 2013.

Stella comes from the north eastern province of India bordering Bangladesh, China, Bhutan and Myanmar. Her family has been internally displaced due to flood and earthquakes and terrorism. As a journalist, Stella reports the issues that she personally lived through and uses the unique perspective of living in refugee camps and shelters.

Besides reporting, Stella also trains women leaders in Digital Storytelling, Social Media and Public Speaking. She has so far trianed over 100 women community based leaders in over 20 countries across Africa, the Americas and Asia Pacific.